Mengqiu Xi
telephone: 07350124656
email: 2518296X@student.gla.ac.uk
Room 603, Level 6, St Andrew's Building, Glasgow G3 6NH
Research title: Diaspora Living Heritage and Identity Formation: A Case Study of the Chinese Community in Glasgow
Research summary
I am a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow and an arts practitioner focusing on intangible cultural heritage (ICH) education within multicultural contexts. My research aims to explore how Chinese diaspora communities in Glasgow engage with living heritage and how can materials, people, space, time and emotional response contribute to the living heritage role in migration.
My broader research interests include community participation in heritage and museums; creativity and interdisciplinarity in arts and humanities education; artistic research; practice-based and practice-as-research methodologies; and the intersections of art education and sociocultural anthropology.
Conferences
Xi, M. (2026). Team member in Sing, Whisper, Roar: Embodied and Multilingual Intergenerational Reading with Young Children (led by Dr Elizabeth Nelson and Dr Nicole Smith). UKLA International Conference 2026, Glasgow, UK.
Additional information
Xi, M. (2026). Presentation: Diaspora Living Heritage and Identity Formation: A Case Study of the Chinese Community in Glasgow. Border Thinking: Showcase of Postgraduate Researchers in the Field of Migration Research, Glasgow Science Festival, University of Glasgow, UK.
Xi, M. (2026). Exhibition: Chanhua (缠花), exhibited in Hand Lines: The Hands That Shape Chinese Craft, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Chinese Cultural Week, Edinburgh, UK. (Artist name: Zhong Nanqiao / 仲南乔)
Xi, M. (2026). Workshop: Art & Craft Workshop Series (Mother-of-Pearl Mirror, Cherry Chanhua, and Cloisonné Coaster), Edinburgh Festival Fringe Chinese Cultural Week, Edinburgh, UK.
Xi, M. (2024). Workshop: Masquerade Art Festival, ICH craft workshop combining Sanxingdui bronze mask motifs and Raden technique, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China.
Xi, M. (2023). Workshop: Me? In the Mirror, ICH craft workshop inspired by ornaments in Dream of the Red Chamber, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China.